Featured Listings

A Hydra-headed project (with heads from the UK and Poland) made by a self- taught Polish woman based in Oslo/Norway. It is an imperfect, chaotic, DIY, darkpunk project with noise and industrial/ambient influences. Instruments used are noise machines, bass guitar, vocals. Industrial collages are an illustration to the music.

Eki Shola is a musical healer, composing music that allows listeners to relax and ease the daily stressors of life. As a physician, she has witnessed how the physical and emotional manifestations of stress and spiritual disconnection can adversely impact the ability to live an enriched and fulfilled life.

Sky High Diamonds is the musical outlet of Sarah Gatter who defines herself as an experimental DIY sound poet. Inspired by a combination of acoustic sounds, electronic sources, pre recorded and spontaneous sounds, Sarah also develops homemade percussion to explore space and rhythm.

Composer and producer of electronic leftfield music. Lives in the woods in Denmark. Early works include recording vocals in a washing machine, building microphones from telephones and recording music through a walkie-talkie.

SIRENS is a duo that uses electronic manipulation and looping to create live improvisations. More than soundscapes, these are songs composed and performed in the same moment. Both vocalists, percussionists, and instrumentalists this duo continues to develop their sound but focus on creating honest, simple, emotive music.

Ashley Shomo is an experimental vocalist who creates unbound compositions with syllables, words, breath and other diverse voice-centric techniques. Cyclopsycho has been Ashley’s primary experiment since 2004. Here, she weaves and manipulates layers of voice, poetry and visual body art to summon adventures into the wild.

Clodagh has been in an on/off relationship with The Music Business since 1968 when she released her first single “Feelin’ High” at the age of 15, with the band she formed at school, Mellow Candle. While still in her teens, she did sessions for Thin Lizzy, Mike Oldfield, and Jade Warrior.

Ms. Soli Tii is a singer, producer and sound artist. She is originally from London, England and has been based in Berlin, Germany since December 2010. Ms. Soli Tii is also the founder and creator of the World Women Project. The World Women Project involves sound art – music and poetry, spoken word and singing.

I am an improvising and experimental vocalist that works with synthesized and site-specific sounds. I have collaborated with choreographers, theatre makers), journalists, young people and more recently, constructed works for live music performance that fuse sound design and composed work with future directions in real-time improvisation.

Riz Maslen, who records as Neotropic and Small Fish With Spine, has been described as one of the most prominent women composers working in post-techno experimental electronics. In addition to her warm electronic programming, Maslen’s music also embraces folk, psychedelic pop and her interest in experimental filmmaking.

Astrid Zeman is a vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, trombone, piano) who creates live, ambient soundscapes using a loop pedal. Through recent explorations of her physical self as an instrument, she has learnt throat and harmonic singing alongside body percussion and mouth manipulations including tongue clicking.

Kristin Bolstad is a Norwegian composer, improviser, singer and electro-acoustic musician. Her works are often conceptual and with an improvisational and playful character, composed more from a practical than theoretical point of view.

I’m a singer who combines beats with performance art and collaborates with producers from around the world. I am a classically trained violinist and also play cello and bass, which I layer to create neoclassical soundtracks for film and modern dance companies.

Lilian Campesato is a Brazilian performer, researcher and curator interested in investigating experimental forms of music and sound art. Her works explore the use of voice and gesture in combination with interactive electronics and audiovisual resources.

Patricia Martinez (Argentina) is composer, improviser, pianist, interdisciplinary artist, researcher and professor. Her works has emerged, in part, from an experimental process of ‘stripping-down,’ which involves a degree of risk-taking, in that the resulting piece is left somewhat vulnerable in terms of its expressive identity.

Sydney-based soprano Sonya Holowell’s unique versatility and approach to nuance set her apart as a performer and director. In 2014 she was Young Artist Soprano/Director with the Song Company, and has performed at many of the leading national classical and new music festivals as a soloist, ensemble singer and improviser.

i am a lo-fi, experimental expressionist; a vocalist and minimal instrumentalist focusing on techniques of improvisation, simplicity, and repetition. i create best when i feel possessed : by my sub-conscious and other muses, but also by my desire to see what is lurking beneath my own layers. i write to create characters, ethereal and haunting experiences, and stories, real and unreal.

Amanda Stewart is a poet, author and composer/performer for voice. She has created a diverse range of publications and performances in Australia, Europe, the US and Japan working in literature, music, sound poetry, broadcasting, theatre, film, dance and new media environments. Within new music and sound art, Stewart has developed a unique approach to composition, improvisation and extended vocal technique where she incorporates her own philosophical, linguistic and poetic formulations/constructions (and abstractions) within music, body and voice.

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live looping techniques, she creates works combining extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, processing, and gesture-activated MIDI controllers.

Dr. Donna Hewitt is a performer, vocalist, electronic music composer and instrument designer. Her primary interest in recent years has been exploring gesture in mediatized performance environments and new ways of interfacing the voice with electronic media. She is the inventor of the eMic, a sensor enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance which she has been developing and performing works with both locally and internationally for the past 11 years.

Ambrosia is a sound and installation artist from Seattle. Her pieces aim to subdue the listener into a trance, to provoke thought beyond word. Visually, she expresses intentional symbolism and occult science using imagery easily absorbed by the viewer. Projects include wrtch, Stalebirth and Boreas. Website: www.ambrosiabartosekulva.com Currently based: Seattle, US

Iris Garrelfs is a London based composer and artist interested in modes of listening as a way of connecting to the world, exploring interrelatedness, patterns and interaction through improvised performances, mixed media projects and recordings.

As a vocalist working with extended techniques, Alice builds intimate exchanges with her audience. She creates an array of timbres and textures by controlling tension in her throat and alternating the passage of air and vocalisations.

Kusum Normoyle is an artist and musician working with voice, feedback and noise for both performance and installation. She is currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art and Design, Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of Douglas Kahn and is an active member of the Sound and Materials Research Group at UNSW Art and Design.

Gail Priest is a Sydney-based artist with a multifaceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. Her compositions exist in a liminal zone between song and soundscape

Recent Listings

A Hydra-headed project (with heads from the UK and Poland) made by a self- taught Polish woman based in Oslo/Norway. It is an imperfect, chaotic, DIY, darkpunk project with noise and industrial/ambient influences. Instruments used are noise machines, bass guitar, vocals. Industrial collages are an illustration to the music.

Eki Shola is a musical healer, composing music that allows listeners to relax and ease the daily stressors of life. As a physician, she has witnessed how the physical and emotional manifestations of stress and spiritual disconnection can adversely impact the ability to live an enriched and fulfilled life.

Sky High Diamonds is the musical outlet of Sarah Gatter who defines herself as an experimental DIY sound poet. Inspired by a combination of acoustic sounds, electronic sources, pre recorded and spontaneous sounds, Sarah also develops homemade percussion to explore space and rhythm.

Catherine’s multidisciplinary practice addresses communication through voice and language and the interplay between hearing/listening and seeing/reading. Using field recording, digital imaging and the spoken/written word she is exploring an expanded approach to language within species and across species through a framework of everyday experience.

Composer and producer of electronic leftfield music. Lives in the woods in Denmark. Early works include recording vocals in a washing machine, building microphones from telephones and recording music through a walkie-talkie.

SIRENS is a duo that uses electronic manipulation and looping to create live improvisations. More than soundscapes, these are songs composed and performed in the same moment. Both vocalists, percussionists, and instrumentalists this duo continues to develop their sound but focus on creating honest, simple, emotive music.

Ashley Shomo is an experimental vocalist who creates unbound compositions with syllables, words, breath and other diverse voice-centric techniques. Cyclopsycho has been Ashley’s primary experiment since 2004. Here, she weaves and manipulates layers of voice, poetry and visual body art to summon adventures into the wild.

Clodagh has been in an on/off relationship with The Music Business since 1968 when she released her first single “Feelin’ High” at the age of 15, with the band she formed at school, Mellow Candle. While still in her teens, she did sessions for Thin Lizzy, Mike Oldfield, and Jade Warrior.

Ms. Soli Tii is a singer, producer and sound artist. She is originally from London, England and has been based in Berlin, Germany since December 2010. Ms. Soli Tii is also the founder and creator of the World Women Project. The World Women Project involves sound art – music and poetry, spoken word and singing.

I am an improvising and experimental vocalist that works with synthesized and site-specific sounds. I have collaborated with choreographers, theatre makers), journalists, young people and more recently, constructed works for live music performance that fuse sound design and composed work with future directions in real-time improvisation.

Riz Maslen, who records as Neotropic and Small Fish With Spine, has been described as one of the most prominent women composers working in post-techno experimental electronics. In addition to her warm electronic programming, Maslen’s music also embraces folk, psychedelic pop and her interest in experimental filmmaking.

Astrid Zeman is a vocalist, composer and multi-instrumentalist (guitar, trombone, piano) who creates live, ambient soundscapes using a loop pedal. Through recent explorations of her physical self as an instrument, she has learnt throat and harmonic singing alongside body percussion and mouth manipulations including tongue clicking.

Kristin Bolstad is a Norwegian composer, improviser, singer and electro-acoustic musician. Her works are often conceptual and with an improvisational and playful character, composed more from a practical than theoretical point of view.

I’m a singer who combines beats with performance art and collaborates with producers from around the world. I am a classically trained violinist and also play cello and bass, which I layer to create neoclassical soundtracks for film and modern dance companies.

Lilian Campesato is a Brazilian performer, researcher and curator interested in investigating experimental forms of music and sound art. Her works explore the use of voice and gesture in combination with interactive electronics and audiovisual resources.

Patricia Martinez (Argentina) is composer, improviser, pianist, interdisciplinary artist, researcher and professor. Her works has emerged, in part, from an experimental process of ‘stripping-down,’ which involves a degree of risk-taking, in that the resulting piece is left somewhat vulnerable in terms of its expressive identity.

Sydney-based soprano Sonya Holowell’s unique versatility and approach to nuance set her apart as a performer and director. In 2014 she was Young Artist Soprano/Director with the Song Company, and has performed at many of the leading national classical and new music festivals as a soloist, ensemble singer and improviser.

i am a lo-fi, experimental expressionist; a vocalist and minimal instrumentalist focusing on techniques of improvisation, simplicity, and repetition. i create best when i feel possessed : by my sub-conscious and other muses, but also by my desire to see what is lurking beneath my own layers. i write to create characters, ethereal and haunting experiences, and stories, real and unreal.

Amanda Stewart is a poet, author and composer/performer for voice. She has created a diverse range of publications and performances in Australia, Europe, the US and Japan working in literature, music, sound poetry, broadcasting, theatre, film, dance and new media environments. Within new music and sound art, Stewart has developed a unique approach to composition, improvisation and extended vocal technique where she incorporates her own philosophical, linguistic and poetic formulations/constructions (and abstractions) within music, body and voice.

Pamela Z is a composer/performer and media artist working with voice, live electronic processing, sampled sound, and video. A pioneer of live looping techniques, she creates works combining extended vocal techniques, operatic bel canto, found objects, text, processing, and gesture-activated MIDI controllers.

Dr. Donna Hewitt is a performer, vocalist, electronic music composer and instrument designer. Her primary interest in recent years has been exploring gesture in mediatized performance environments and new ways of interfacing the voice with electronic media. She is the inventor of the eMic, a sensor enhanced microphone stand for electronic music performance which she has been developing and performing works with both locally and internationally for the past 11 years.

Ambrosia is a sound and installation artist from Seattle. Her pieces aim to subdue the listener into a trance, to provoke thought beyond word. Visually, she expresses intentional symbolism and occult science using imagery easily absorbed by the viewer. Projects include wrtch, Stalebirth and Boreas. Website: www.ambrosiabartosekulva.com Currently based: Seattle,...

Iris Garrelfs is a London based composer and artist interested in modes of listening as a way of connecting to the world, exploring interrelatedness, patterns and interaction through improvised performances, mixed media projects and recordings.

As a vocalist working with extended techniques, Alice builds intimate exchanges with her audience. She creates an array of timbres and textures by controlling tension in her throat and alternating the passage of air and vocalisations.

Kusum Normoyle is an artist and musician working with voice, feedback and noise for both performance and installation. She is currently a PhD candidate at UNSW Art and Design, Sydney, Australia, under the supervision of Douglas Kahn and is an active member of the Sound and Materials Research Group at UNSW Art and Design.

Gail Priest is a Sydney-based artist with a multifaceted practice in which sound is the key material of communication and investigation. Her compositions exist in a liminal zone between song and soundscape

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Gail Priest is a Sydney-based sound artist, writer and curator. For more see http://www.gailpriest.net/
Audible Women was started when Gail was the Australia Council Emerging & Experimental Arts Fellow (2015/2016)